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A review by celestihel
Trinity by Leon Uris
5.0
This story follows the lives of two Irish Catholic boys growing up between revolutions. Their folks were Fenians and they grown up to be republicans. It's a fight that is never quite won and a struggle that only makes some progress at slow intervals, even now. If you want to feel what life is like for a colonized people, this is a good trip inside that mind.
It is a dreary & beautiful slog through fictionalized history of a conquered people. If depressing stories punctuated by periods of unrequited hope are not your thing, you will not enjoy this book. I, however, found it was not like a book at all, it wasn't like reading a story. It was being the fly on a wall. I was so immersed in the story it felt like being there. If it were just fiction, maybe it would feel like too much, but in a very real way this is exactly what it must have felt like to be Irish Catholic at the time and is therefore a valuable exercise in empathy and a lesson in the damage inflicted on the colonized mind.
It is a dreary & beautiful slog through fictionalized history of a conquered people. If depressing stories punctuated by periods of unrequited hope are not your thing, you will not enjoy this book. I, however, found it was not like a book at all, it wasn't like reading a story. It was being the fly on a wall. I was so immersed in the story it felt like being there. If it were just fiction, maybe it would feel like too much, but in a very real way this is exactly what it must have felt like to be Irish Catholic at the time and is therefore a valuable exercise in empathy and a lesson in the damage inflicted on the colonized mind.